Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Anthos : Users can run applications on-premises, in GCP, or with other major public cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure. This orchestration layer uses software-based tools to automate IT tasks and manage resources—virtualized or other. Support virtual machines and containers.

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 176

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 241

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 241

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

Latency 171

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 244

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. This is what this blog is all about.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 188

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. Not to belabor the point, but FID paints quite a different story, with virtually all (99.9%) desktop sites and 93.6%

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Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. For example, a virtual machine (VM) can replace containers to design and architect microservices. Dynatrace news.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 193

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2021

In an industry that traditionally relies on in-person service, building a successful virtual relationship with customers requires creative thinking and collaboration across the business. Why stop at your own virtual walls? Why stop within the virtual walls of your own company?”. Where is the definitive line of BizDevOps?”

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DevOps Metrics Virtualization Strategy 206

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

DZone

OCTOBER 5, 2020

So when I discovered that you can now rent by the hour massive instances within Google Compute Cloud that support 224 virtual cores based on AMD EPYC 2 Rome processors, I had to jump at the opportunity to see what kind low hanging fruit might be out there. It's not every day that you get to break a record. Low and behold I found it!

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Virtualization Google Programming Servers 113

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 250

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 250

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 337

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 181

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project. Part of its popularity owes to its availability as a managed service through the major cloud providers, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service , Google Kubernetes Engine , and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 179

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands. On-Premises Data Center A hybrid cloud architecture necessitates that an organization retains full authority over its physical or virtual infrastructure within the private cloud segment.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2021

In an industry that traditionally relies on in-person service, building a successful virtual relationship with customers requires creative thinking and collaboration across the business. Why stop at your own virtual walls? Why stop within the virtual walls of your own company?”. Where is the definitive line of BizDevOps?”

DevOps 130

DevOps Metrics Virtualization Strategy 130

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

These packages, known as container images, are immutable and because they abstract the environment on which they run, they ’re portable and can be moved from one environment to another , regardless of what platform it’s running on, i.e. a physical or virtual machine, on-premise, data center , or in the public cloud. .

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Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

This was the key theme discussed with one of our Dynatrace customers as part of a virtual breakfast Dynatrace recently hosted. The first thing the team did was make sure system performance and responsiveness were front of mind and visible to all stakeholders. One component that’s seen a huge amount of popularity is the Chatbot.

Games 244

Games Traffic Virtualization Google 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Andreas Grabner, DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, took to the virtual stage at the recent Dynatrace Perform conference to describe how the open source Keptn project automates the configuration of observability tools, dashboards, and alerting based on service-level objectives (SLOs). SLO-based release validation made easy.

Open Source 181

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 181

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

These packages, known as container images, are immutable and because they abstract the environment on which they run, they ’re portable and can be moved from one environment to another , regardless of what platform it’s running on, i.e. a physical or virtual machine, on-premise, data center , or in the public cloud. .

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 170

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 170

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. You haven’t detected that there’s a shortage of disk space on the virtualization host (or its shared storage). Conclusion.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 159

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It’s a free virtual event so I hope you join me. If you’re not familiar with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and the concepts of Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) I recommend watching the YouTube Video from Google Engineers called SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, oh my!

DevOps 244

DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 244

Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

For instance, some websites can automatically detect the presence of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on a device. Improved Google Indexing Google prefers websites that have a responsive design layout and rely on CSS media queries for their functionality. This will result in improved overall performance of the website.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Website Design Mobile 52

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. It is a suite of tools that help you identify the impact of specific code changes on you site not just performance-wise, but in terms of SEO, accessibility, offline support, and other best practices.

Performance 78

Performance Storage Servers Virtualization 78

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Well-defined APIs are required for managing such microservices and tracking changes in their performance. Why Dynatrace.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 190

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Although redesigning applications sounds daunting, understanding how these architectures work will enable your organization to reap the performance and cost benefits of cloud hyperscalers. These loosely coupled, lightweight services typically perform a single function and can be chained together into an application. Microservices.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. This allows developers to create a website with optimal performance and user experience.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Virtual DOM It means Document Object Model. ReactJS utilizes virtual DOM to improve the updating efficiency of actual DOM. ReactJS generates a virtual document object model instead of manipulating changes directly. It helps improve performance and provides a smoother user experience. What does Virtual DOM mean in ReactJS?

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